About CP

California Presenters was founded in 1985 as a statewide coalition of organizations committed to advancing professional touring and presenting of the performing arts. As such, California Presenters nurtures organizational leadership, professional development, and knowledge exchange in the performing arts.

Twenty-five years later, California Presenters affirms this mission and promotes four core goals to support our field in a rapidly changing arts environment:

• CP hosts an annual presenter-to-presenter Artist Information Exchange
• CP provides funding to support New Work artist tours to California Presenter members
• CP advocates at the regional, state and national level for the arts in California
• CP supports, nurtures and develops leadership for new professionals in
  the presenting field

California Presenters recognizes the critical need to nurture and sustain presenter-to-presenter collaboration, partnerships, and dialogue about the arts in our state.
An open exchange of ideas that address the challenges, changes and issues that California presenting arts organizations face is an important hallmark of California Presenters.

Membership to California Presenters is open only to any civic or non-profit organizations
in California, which have presentation of performing arts as their primary function. These may include:

• College and University-based presenting organizations
• City and County presenting organizations
• Public, civic and non-profit presenting organizations
• Performing Arts Service Organizations

Membership is also open to any of the above from states outside of California. California Presenters encourages and supports active participation from professionals at all levels in the presenting organization to participate (artistic, executive, marketing, education, development, etc…)

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